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I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

CHAPTER

A Songwriter's Guide to Rhapsody

The song has a single rhyme per verse. "I shoot for better and more interesting rhymes now, but formal curiosity in terms of like, what's my rhyme scheme gonna be?" he says. The chorus is essentially just the last line of a verse. I'm also a fan ofSetting rules for art can actually give you a lot of freedom on how to approach that problem. He often sets up those rules using a random number generator.

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